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Alice in Wonderland 


Chapter I 

Down the Rabbit-hole 

1. Alice was beginning to get very tired of sit- 
ting by her sister on the bank, and of having 
nothing to do : once or twice she had peeped into 
the book her sister was reading, but it had no 
pictures or conversations in it, “ and what is the 
use of a book,” thought Alice, “ without pictures 
or conversations ? ” 

2. So she was considering in her own mind (as 
well as she could, for the hot day made her feel 

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very sleepy and stupid) whether the pleasure of 
making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble 
of getting up and picking the daisies, when sud- 
denly a white rabbit with pink eyes ran close by 
her. 

3. There was nothing so very remarkable in that ; 
nor did Alice think it so very much out of the 
way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, “ Oh dear ! 
Oh dear ! I shall be too late ! ” (when she thought 
it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she 
ought to have wondered at this, but at the time 
it all seemed quite natural ;) but when the Rabbit 
actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pockety and 
looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to 
her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she 
had never before seen a rabbit with either a waist- 
coat-pocket or a watch to take out of it, and, burn- 
ing with curiosity, she ran across the field after 
it, and was just in time to see it pop down a large 
rabbit-hole under the hedge. 

4. In another moment down went Alice after it, 
never once considering how in the world she was 
to get out again. 

5. The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel 
for some way, and then dipped suddenly down — 
so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think 
about stopping herself before she found herself 
falling down what seemed to be a very deep well. 

6. Either the well was very deep or she fell very 
slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went 
down to look about her, and to wonder what was 
going to happen next. First, she tried to look 


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down and make out what she was coming to, but 
it was too dark to see anything: then she looked 
at the sides of the well, and noticed that they 
were filled with cupboards and book-shelves : here 
and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon 
pegs. She took down a jar from one of the 
shelves as she passed ; it was labeled “ Orange 
Marmalade,” but to her great disappointment it 
was empty : she did not like to drop the jar for 
fear of killing somebody underneath, so managed 
to put it into one of the cupboards as she fell past 
it. 

7. “ W ell ! ” thought Alice to herself, “ after such 
a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling 
down-stairs ! How brave they’ll all think me at 
home ! Why, I wouldn’t say anything about it, 
even if I fell off the top of the house ! ” (Which 
was very likely true.) 

8. Down, down, down. Would the fall never 

come to an end ? “ I wonder how many miles I’ve 

fallen by this time?” she said aloud. “ I must be 
getting somewhere near the center of the earth. 
Let me see : that would be four thousand miles 
down, I think — ” (for, you see, Alice had learnt 
several things of this sort in her lessons in the 
schoolroom, and though this was not a very good 
opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as 
there was no one to listen to her, still it was good 
practice to say it over) — “ yes, that’s about the 
risrht distance — but then I wonder what Latitude 
or Longitude I’ve got to?” (Alice had not the 
slightest idea what Latitude was, or Longitude 


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either, but she thought they were nice grand 
words to say.) 

9. Presently she began again : “ I wonder if I 

shall fall right through the earth ! How funny 
it’ll seem to come out among the people that 
walk with their heads downwards! The An- 
tipathies, I think — ” (she was rather glad there 
was no one listening this time, as it didn’t sound 
at all the right word) — “ but I shall have to 
ask them what the name of the country is, you 
know. Please, ma’am, is this New Zealand or 
Australia? ” (and she tried to curtsy as she spoke 
— fancy curtsying as you’re falling through the 
air ! Do you think you could manage it ?) “ And 

what an ignorant little girl she’ll think me for 
asking! No, it’ll never do to ask: perhaps I 
shall see it written up somewhere.” 

10. Down, down, down. There was nothing else 
to do, so Alice soon began talking again. “ Dinah’ll 
miss me very much to-night, I should think ! ” 
(Dinah was the cat.) “ 1 hope they’ll remember 
her saucer of milk at tea-time. Dinah, my dear! 
I wish you were down here with me ! There are 
no mice in the air, Pm afraid, but you might catch 
a bat, and that’s very like a mouse, you know. 
But do cats eat bats, I wonder?” And here 
Alice began to get rather sleepy, and went on say- 
ing to herself, in a dreamy sort of way, “ Do cats 
eat bats ? Do cats eat bats ? ” and sometimes, 
“ Do bats eat cats? ” for, you see, as she couldn’t 
answer either question, it didn’t mnch matter 
which way she put it. She felt that she was 


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dozing off, and had just begun to dream that she 
was walking hand in hand with Dinah, and was 
saving to her very earnestly, “ Now, Dinah, tell 
me the truth: did you ever eat a bat?” when 
suddenly, thump! thump! down she came upon 
a heap of sticks and dry leaves, and the fall was 
over. 

11. Alice was not a bit hurt, and she jumped up 
on to her feet in a moment : she looked up, but it 
was all dark overhead ; before her was another 
long passage, and the White Rabbit was still in 
sight, hurrying down it. There was not a mo- 
ment to be lost : away went Alice like the wind, 
and was just in time to hear it say, as it turned a 
corner, “ Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it’s 
getting!” She was close behind it when she 
turned the corner, but the Rabbit was no longer 
to be seen : she found herself in a long, low hall, 
which was lit up by a row of lamps hanging from 
the roof. 

12. There were doors all round the hall, but they 
were all locked, and when Alice had been all the 
way down one side and up the other, trying every 
door, she walked sadly down the middle, wonder- 
ing how she was ever to get out again. 

13. Suddenly she came upon a little three-legged 
table, all made of solid glass; there was nothing 
on it but a tiny golden key, and Alice’s first idea 
was that this might belong to one of the doors of 
the hall ; but, alas ! either the locks were too large, 
or the key was too small, but at any rate it would 
not open any of them. However, on the second 


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time round, she came upon a low curtain she had 
not noticed before, and behind it was a little door 
about fifteen inches high ; she tried the little 

golden key in the 
lock, and to her 
great delight it 
fitted ! 

14. Alice opened 
the door and found 
that it led into a 
small passage not 
much larger than 
a rat - hole : she 
knelt down, and 
looked along the 
passage into the 
loveliest garden you ever saw. How she longed 
to get out of that dark hall, and wander about 
among those beds of bright flowers and those 
cool fountains, but she could not even get her 
head through the doorway ; “ and even if my 
head would go through,” thought poor Alice, 
“ it would be of very little use without my shoul- 
ders. Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a tele- 
scope ! I think I could, if I only knew how to 
begin.” For, you see, so many out-of-the-way 
things had happened lately that Alice had begun 
to think that very few things indeed were really 
impossible. 

15. There seemed to be no use in waiting by the 
little door, so she went back to the table, half 
hoping she might find another key on it, or, at any 



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rate, a book of rules for shutting people up like 
telescopes: this time she found a little bottle on 
it (“ which certainly was not here before,” said 
Alice), and tied round the neck of the bottle was 
a paper label with the words “ drink me ” beauti- 
fully printed on it in large letters. 

1 6. It was all very well to say “ Drink me,” but 
the wise little Alice was not going to do that in 
a hurry : “ no, I’ll look 
first,” she said, “ and 
see whether it’s marked 
1 poison or not ; ” for she 
had read several nice 
little stories about chil- 
dren who had got burnt, 
and eaten up by wild 
beasts, and other un- 
pleasant things, all be- 
cause they would not 
remember the simple 
rules their friends had 
taught them, such as, 
that a red-hot poker will 
burn you if you hold it too long ; and that if you 
cut your finger very deeply with a knife, it usually 
bleeds; and she had never forgotten that, if you 
drink much'from a bottle marked “poison,” it is 
almost certain to disagree with you sooner or 
later. 

17. However, this bottle was not marked “ poi- 
son ; ” so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it 
very nice (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavor of 



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cherry-tart, custard, pineapple, roast turkey, taffy, 
and hot buttered toast), she very soon finished it 
off. 

1 8. “What a curious feeling!” said Alice; “I 
must be shutting up like a telescope.” 

19. And so it was indeed : she was now only ten 
inches high, and her face brightened up at the 
thought that she was now the right size for going 
through the little door into that lovely garden. 
First, however, she waited for a few minutes to 
see if she was going to shrink any further : she 
felt a little nervous about this, “ for it might end, 
you know,” said Alice to herself, “ in my going 
out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I 
should be like then?” And she tried to fancy 
what the flame of a candle looks like after the 
candle is blown out, for she could not remember 
ever having seen such a thing. 

20. After a while, finding that nothing more hap- 
pened, she decided on going into the garden at 
once ; but, alas for poor Alice ! when she got to 
the door, she found she had forgotten the little 
golden key, and when she went back to the table 
for it, she found she could not possibly reach it : 
she could see it quite plainly through the glass, 
and she tried her best to climb up one of the legs 
of the table ; but it was too slippery, and when she 
had tired herself out with trying, the poor little 
thing sat down and cried. 

21. “ Come, there’s no use in crying like that ! ” 
said Alice to herself, rather sharply ; “ I advise 
you to leave off this minute ! ” She generally 


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gave herself very good advice (though she very 
seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded 
herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes, 
and once she remembered trying to box her own 
ears for having cheated herself in a game of 
croquet she was playing against herself, for this 
curious child was very fond of pretending to be 
two people. “ But it’s no use now,” thought 
poor Alice, “ to pretend to be two people ! Why, 
there’s hardly enough of me left to make one re- 
spectable person ! ” 

22. Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was 
lying under the table: she opened it, and found 
in it a very small cake, on which the words “ EAT 
ME” were beautifully marked in currants. “ Well, 
I’ll eat it,” said Alice, “ and if it makes me grow 
larger, I can reach the key ; and if it makes me 
grow smaller, I can creep under the door: so 
either way I’ll get into the garden, and I don’t 
care which happens!” 

23. She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to her- 
self, “ Which way ? Which way ? ” holding her 
hand on the top of her head to feel which way it 
was growing, and she was quite surprised to find 
that she remained the same size: to be sure, this 
is what generally happens when one eats cake ; 
but Alice had got so much into the way of ex- 
pecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to hap- 
pen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life 
to go on in the common way. 

24. So she set to work, and very soon finished 
off the cake. 


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Chapter II 
The Pool of Tears 

i . “ Curiouser and curiouser ! ” cried Alice (she 
was so much surprised, that for the moment she 



quite forgot how to 
speak good English) ; 
“ now I’m opening out 
like the largest tele- 
scope that ever was ! 
Good-bye, feet ! ” (for 
when she looked down 
at her feet, they seemed 
to be almost out of 
sight, they were getting 
so far off.) “ Oh, my 
poor little feet, I won- 
der who will put on 
your shoes and stock- 
ings for you now, dears ? 
I’m sure I shan’t be 
able ! I shall be a great 
deal too far off to trouble 
myself about you : you 
must manage the best 
way you can. But I 
must be kind to them,” 
thought Alice, “ or per- 
haps they won’t walk 
the way I want to go ! 


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Let me see: I’ll give them a new pair of boots 
every Christmas.” 

2. And she went on planning to herself how she 
would manage it. “ They must go by the car- 
rier,” she thought; “and how funny it’ll seem, 
sending presents to one’s own feet! And how 
odd the directions will look ! 

Alice s Right Foot , Esq., 

Hearthrug , 

near the Fender , 

{with Alice's love) 

Oh dear, what nonsense I’m talking! ” 

3. Just at this moment her head struck against 
the roof of the hall : in fact she was now rather 
more than nine feet high, and she at once took up 
the little golden key and hurried off to the garden 
door. 

4. Poor Alice ! It was as much as she could do, 
lying down on one side, to look through into the 
garden with one eye; but to get through was 
more hopeless than ever : she sat down and be- 
gan to cry again. 

5. “You ought to be ashamed of yourself,” said 
Alice, “ a great girl like you ” (she might well say 
this), “ to go on crying in this way ! Stop this 
moment, I tell you!” But she went on all the 
same, shedding gallons of tears, until there was a 
large pool all round her, about four inches deep 
and reaching half down the hall. 

6. After a time she heard a little pattering of feet 


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in the distance, and she hastily dried her eyes to 
see what was coming - . It was the White Rabbit 
returning, splendidly dressed, with a pair of white 
kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the 
other: he came trotting along in a great hurry, 
muttering to himself as he came, “ Oh ! the Duch- 
ess, the Duchess! Oh! won’t she be savage if 
I’ve kept her waiting!” Alice felt so desperate 
that she was ready to ask help of any one ; so, 
when the Rabbit came near her she began, in a 
low, timid voice, “ If you please, sir — ” The Rab- 
bit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves 
and the fan, and skurried away into the darkness 
as hard as he could go. 

7. Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the 
hall was very hot, she kept fanning herself all the 
time she went on talking: “Dear, dear! How 
queer everything is to-day ! And yesterday 
things went on just as usual. I wonder if I’ve 
been changed in the night? Let me think: was I 
the same when I got up this morning ? I almost 
think I can remember feeling a little different. 
But if I’m not the same, the next question is, 
Who in the world am I ? Ah, that' s the great 
puzzle!” And she began thinking over all the 
children she knew, that were of the same age as 
herself, to see if she could have been changed for 
any of them. 

8. “ I’m sure I’m not Ada,” she said, “ for her hair 
goes in such long ringlets, and mine doesn’t go in 
ringlets at all; and I’m sure I can’t be Mabel, for 
I know all sorts of things, and she, oh ! she knows 


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such a very little ! Besides, she's she, and I'm I, 
and — oh dear, how puzzling it all is ! I’ll try if I 
know all the things I used to know. Let me see : 
four times five is twelve, and four times six is 
thirteen, and four times seven is — oh dear ! I 
shall never get to twenty at that rate ! However, 
the Multiplication Table don’t signify: let’s try 
Geography. London is the capital of Paris, and 
Paris is the capital of Rome, and Rome — no, 
that's all wrong, I’m certain ! I must have been 
changed for Mabel! I’ll try and say ‘ How doth 
the little — ’ ” and she crossed her hands on her 
lap, as if she were saying lessons, and began to 
repeat it, but her voice sounded hoarse and 
strange, and the words did not come the same as 
they used to do : 

“ How doth the little crocodile 
Improve his shining tail, 

And pour the waters of the Nile 
On every golden scale ! 

“ How cheerfully he seems to grin , 

Hoiv neatly spreads his claws, 

And welcomes little fishes in 
With gently smiling jazvs ! " 

9. “ I’m sure those are not the right words,” said 
poor Alice, and her eyes filled with tears again as 
she went on : “ I must be Mabel after all, and I 
shall have to go and live in that poky little house, 
and have next to no toys to play with, and, oh ! 
ever so many lessons to learn ! ” 


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10. As she said this she looked down at her hands, 
and was surprised to see that she had put on one 
of the Rabbit’s little white kid gloves while she 
was talking. “ How can I have done that ? ” she 
thought. “ I must be growing small again.” She 
got up and went to the table to measure herself 
by it, and found that, as nearly as she could 
guess, she was now about two feet high, and was 
going on shrinking rapidly : she soon found out 
that the cause of this was the fan she was holding, 
and she dropped it hastily, just in time to save 
herself from shrinking away altogether. 

11. “ That was a narrow escape ! ” said Alice, a 
good deal frightened at the sudden change, but 
very glad to find herself still in existence ; “ and 
now for the garden ! ” and she ran with all speed 
back to the little door : but', alas ! the little door 
was shut again, and the little golden key was 
lying on the glass table as before, “ and things are 
worse than ever,” thought the poor child, “ for I 
never was so small as this before, never ! And I 
declare it’s too bad, that it is ! ” 

12. As she said these words her foot slipped, and 
in another moment, splash ! she was up to her chin 
in salt water. Her first idea was that she had 
somehow fallen into the sea. 

13. However she soon made out that she was in 
the pool of tears which she had wept when she 
was nine feet high. 

14. “ I wish I hadn’t cried so much ! ” said Alice, 
as she swam about, trying to find her way out. 
“ I shall be punished for it now, 1 suppose, by 


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9 


being drowned in my own tears! That will be a 
queer thing, to be sure! However, everything is 
queer to-day.” 

15. Just then she heard something splashing 
about in the pool a little way off, and she swam 
nearer to make out what it was: at first she 
thought it must be a walrus or hippopotamus, 
but then she remembered how small she was 
now, and she soon made out that it was only a 
mouse, that had slipped in like herself. 

1 6. “ VV ould it be of any use, now,” thought Alice, 
“ to speak to this mouse ? Everything is so out- 
of-the-way down here, that I should think very 
likely it can talk ; at any rate there’s no harm in 
trying.” So she began : “ O Mouse, do you 
know the way out of this pool ?” 

1 7. The Mouse looked at her rather inquisitively, 
and seemed to her to wink with one of its little 
eyes, but it said nothing. 

18. “ Perhaps it doesn’t understand English,” 
thought Alice ; “ I dare say it’s a French mouse.” 
So she began again : “ Oil est ma chatte ? ” which 
was the first sentence in her French lesson-book. 
The Mouse gave a sudden leap out of the water, 
and seemed to quiver all over with fright. “ Oh, 
I beg your pardon ! ” cried Alice hastily, afraid 
that she had hurt the poor animal’s feelings. “ I 
quite forgot you didn’t like cats.” 

19. “ Not like cats! ” cried the Mouse, in a shrill, 
passionate voice. “ Would you like cats if you 
were me ? ” 

20. “ Well, perhaps not,” said Alice in a soothing 


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tone : “ don’t be angry about it. And yet I wish 
I could show you our cat Dinah : 1 think you’d 
take a fancy to cats if you could only see her. 
She is such a dear quiet thing,” Alice went on, 
half to herself, as she swam lazily about in the 
pool, “ and she sits purring so nicely by the fire, 



licking her paws and washing her face — and she 
is such a nice soft thing to nurse — and she’s such 
a capital one for catching mice — oh, I beg your 
pardon!” cried Alice again, for this time the 
Mouse was bristling all over, and she felt certain 
it must be really offended. “ We won’t talk about 
her any more if you’d rather not.” 

21. “We, indeed!” cried the Mouse, who was 
trembling down to the end of his tail. “ As if / 
would talk on such a subject! Our family always 
hated cats: nasty, low, vulgar things! Don’t let 
me hear the name again ! ” 

22. “ I won’t indeed ! ” said Alice, in a great hurry 
to change the subject of conversation. “ Are you 


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21 


— are you fond — of — of dogs ? ” The Mouse did 
not answer, so Alice went on eagerly : “ There is 
such a nice little dog near our house I should like 
to show you ! A little bright-eyed terrier, you 
know, with, oh ! such long curly brown hair ! 
And it’ll fetch things when you throw them, and 
it’ll sit up and beg for its dinner, and all sorts of 
things — I can’t remember half of them — and it 
belongs to a farmer, you know, and he says it’s so 
useful, it kills all the rats and — oh dear!” cried 
Alice in a sorrowful tone. “I’m afraid I’ve 
offended it again ! ” For the Mouse was swim- 
ming away from her as hard as it could go, and 
making quite a commotion in the pool as it 
went. 

23. So she called softly after it : “ Mouse dear ! 
Do come back again, and we won’t talk about cats 
or dogs either, if you don’t like them ! ” When 
the Mouse heard this, it turned round and swam 
slowly back to her : its face was quite pale (with 
passion, Alice thought), and it said in a low, 
trembling voice, “ Let us get to the shore, and 
then I’ll tell you my history, and you’ll under- 
stand why it is I hate cats and dogs.” 

24. “Mine is a long and a sad tale!” said the 
Mouse, turning to Alice, and sighing. 

25. “It is a long tail, certainly,” said Alice, look- 
ing down with wonder at the Mouse’s tail ; “ but 
why do you call it sad ?” And she kept on puzzl- 
ing about it while the Mouse was speaking, so that 
her idea of the tale was something like this 

“ Fury said to 


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a mouse, That 
he met 
in the 
house, 

‘ Let us 
both go 
to law : 

I will 


prosecute 
you . — 

Come, I’ll 
take no 
denial ; 

We must 

have a 
trial : 

For 

really 

this 


morning 
I’ve 
nothing 
to do.’ 

Said the 
mouse to 
the cur, 

‘ Such a 
trial 
dear sir, 

With no 
jury or 
judge, 

would be 
wasting 

our breath.’ 

‘I’ll be 
judge, 

I’ll be 
jury,’ 

Said 

cunning 

old Fury : 

‘I’ll try 

the whole 
cause, 
and 
condemn 
you 
to 

death.’ ” 


2 6. “You are not 
to Alice, severely, 
of?” 


attending!” said the Mouse 
“ What are you thinking 


The Pool of Tears 


23 


“ I beg your pardon,” said Alice very humbly : 
“ you had got to the fifth bend, I think?” 

“ I had not ! ” cried the Mouse, sharply and 
very angrily. 

“ A knot ! ” said Alice, always ready to make 
herself useful, and looking anxiously about her. 

“ Oh, do let me help to undo it ! ” 

“ I shall do nothing of the sort,” said the 
Mouse, getting up and walking away. “ You in- 
sult me by talking such nonsense ! ” 

“ I didn’t mean it! ” pleaded poor Alice. “ But 
you’re so easily offended, you know ! ” 

The Mouse only growled in reply. 

“ Please come back, and finish your story ! ” 
Alice called after it; but the Mouse only shook 
its head impatiently, and walked a little quicker. 

29. “I wish I hadn’t mentioned Dinah!” said 
Alice to herself in a melancholy tone. “ Nobody 
seems to like her down here, and Pm sure she’s the 
best cat in the world ! Oh, my dear Dinah ! I 
wonder if I shall ever see you any more! ” And 
here poor Alice began to cry again, for Alice felt 
very lonely and low-spirited. In a little while, 
however, she again heard a little pattering of foot- 
steps in the distance, and she looked up eagerly, 
half hoping that the Mouse had changed his 
mind, and was coming back to finish his story. 


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Chapter III 

In the White Rabbit’s House 

1. It was the White Rabbit, trotting slowly back 
again, and looking anxiously about as it went, as 
if it had lost something ; and she heard it mutter- 
ing to itself, “ The Duchess ! The Duchess ! Oh 
my dear paws ! Oh my fur and whiskers ! She’ll 
get me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets ! 
Where can I have dropped them, I wonder!” 
Alice guessed in a moment that it was looking 
for the fan and the pair of white kid gloves, and 
she very good-naturedly began hunting about for 
them ; but they were nowhere to be seen — every- 
thing seemed to have changed since her swim in 
the pool, and the great hall, with the glass table 
and the little door, had vanished completely. 

2. Very soon the Rabbit noticed Alice, as she 
went hunting about, and called out to her in an 
angry tone, “ Why, Mary Ann, what are you do- 
out here? Run home this moment, and fetch me 
a pair of gloves and a fan ! Quick, now ! ” And 
Alice was so much frightened that she ran off at 
once in the direction it pointed to, without trying 
to explain the mistake that it had made. 

3. “ He took me for his housemaid,” she said to 
herself as she ran. “ How surprised he’ll be 
when he finds out who I am ! But I’d better 
take him his fan and gloves — that is, if I can find 
them.” As she said this, she came upon a neat 


In the White Rabbit’s House 25 

little house, on the door of which was a bright 
brass plate with the name “ W. Rabbit ” en- 
graved upon it. She went in without knocking, 
and hurried upstairs, in great fear lest she should 
meet the real Mary Ann, and be turned out of 
the house before she had found the fan and 
gloves. 

4. She found her way into a tidy little room with 
a table in the window, and on it (as she had 
hoped) a fan and two or three pairs of tinv white 
kid gloves ; she took up the fan and a pair of the 
gloves, and was just going to leave the room, 
when her eye fell upon a little bottle that stood 
near the looking-glass. There was no label this 
time with the words “ DRINK ME,” but neverthe- 
less she uncorked it and put it to her lips. “ I 
know something interesting is sure to happen,” 
she said to herself, “ whenever I eat or drink any- 
thing ; so I’ll just see what this bottle does. I 
do hope it’ll make me grow large again, for really 
I’m quite tired of being such a tiny little thing ! ” 

5. It did so indeed, and much sooner than she had 
expected ; before she had drunk half the bottle, 
she found her head pressing against the ceiling, 
and had to stoop to save her neck from being 
broken. She hastily put down the bottle, saying 
to herself, “ That’s quite enough — I hope I shan’t 
grow any more. As it is, I can’t get out at the 
door — I do wish I hadn’t drunk quite so much ! ” 

6. Alas ! It was too late to wish that ! She went 
on growing and growing, and very soon had to 
kneel down on the floor ; in another minute there 


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was not even room for this, and she tried the 
effect of lying down, with one elbow against the 
door, and the other arm curled round her head. 
Still she went on growing, and, as a last resource, 
she put one arm out of the window, and one foot 
up the chimney, and said to herself, “ Now I can 



do no more, whatever happens. What will be- 
come of me? ” 

7. Luckily for Alice, the little magic bottle had 
now had its full effect, and she grew no larger: 
still it was very uncomfortable, and, as there 
seemed to be no sort of chance of her ever get- 
ting out of the room again, no wonder she felt 
unhappy. 

8. After a few minutes she heard a voice outside, 
and stopped to listen. 

9. “ Mary Ann ! Mary Ann ! ” said the voice, 
“ fetch me my gloves this moment ! ” Then came a 


In the White Rabbit’s House 27 

little pattering of feet on the stairs. Alice knew it 
was the Rabbit coming to look for her, and she 
trembled till she shook the house, quite forgetting 
that she was now about a thousand times as large 
as the Rabbit, and had no reason to be afraid of it. 

10. Presently the Rabbit came up to the door, and 
tried to open it, but as the door opened inwards, 
and Alice’s elbow was pressed hard against it, 
that attempt proved a failure. Alice heard it say 
to itself, “ Then I’ll go round and get in at the 
window.” 

11. “ That you won’t!” thought Alice; but the 
next moment a shower of little pebbles came 
rattling in at the window, and some of them hit 
her in the face. 

12. Alice noticed with some surprise that the 
pebbles were all turning into little cakes as they lay 
on the floor, and a bright idea came into her head. 
“If I eat one of these cakes,” she thought, “it’s 
sure to make some change in my size ; and as it 
can’t possibly make me larger, it must make me 
smaller, I suppose.” 

13. So she swallowed one of the cakes, and was 
delighted to find that she began shrinking directly. 
As soon as she was small enough to get through 
the door she ran off as hard as she could, and 
soon found herself safe in a thick wood. 

14. “ The first thing I’ve got to do,” said Alice 
to herself as she wandered about in the wood, “ is 
to grow to my right size again ; and the second 
thing is to find my way into that lovely garden. 
I think that will be the best plan. 


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15. “ Let me see — how is it to be managed? 1 
suppose I ought to eat or drink something or 
other ; but the great question is, what? ” 

16. The great question certainly was, what ? 
Alice looked all round her at the flowers and the 
blades of grass, but she could not see anything that 
looked like the right thing to eat or drink under 
the circumstances. There was a large mush- 
room growing near her, about the same height 
as herself, and when she had looked under it, and 
on both sides of it, and behind it, it occurred to 
her that she might as well look and see what was 
on the top of it. 

1 7. She stretched herself up on tiptoe, and peeped 
over the edge of the mushroom, and her eyes im- 
mediately met those of a large blue caterpillar, 
that was sitting on the top with its arms folded, 
quietly smoking a long hookah, and taking not 
the smallest notice of her or of anything else. 


Advice from a Caterpillar 


2 9 



Chapter IV 

Advice from a Caterpillar 

1. The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each 
other for some time in silence : at last the Cat- 
erpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, and 
addressed her in a languid, sleepy voice. 

2. “ Who are you ? ” said the Caterpillar. 

This was not an encouraging opening for a 
conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, “ I — I 


Alice in Wonderland 


30 

hardly know, sir, just at present — at least I know 
who I zvas when I got up this morning, but I 
think I must have been changed several times 
since then.” 

3. “ What do you mean by that?” said the Cat- 
erpillar sternly. “ Explain yourself! ” 

“ I can’t explain myself \ I’m afraid, sir,” said 
Alice, “ because I’m not myself, you see.” 

“ I don’t see,” said the Caterpillar. 

“ I’m afraid I can’t put it more clearly,” Alice 
replied very politely, “ for I can’t understand it 
myself to begin with ; and being so many differ- 
ent sizes in a day is very confusing.” 

4. “ It isn’t,” said the Caterpillar. 

“ Well, perhaps you haven’t found it so yet,” 
said Alice ; “ but when you have to turn into a 
chrysalis — you will some day, you know— and 
then after that into a butterfly, I should think 
you’ll feel it a little queer, won’t you ? ” 

“ Not a bit,” said the Caterpillar. 

“ Well, perhaps your feelings may be different,” 
said Alice ; “ all I know is, it would feel very 
queer to me.” 

“You?” said the Caterpillar contemptuously. 
“ Who are you ? ” 

5. Which brought them back again to the begin- 
ning of the conversation. Alice felt a little irri- 
tated at the Caterpillar’s making such very short 
remarks, and she drew herself up and said, very 
gravely, “ 1 think you ought to tell me who you 
are, first,” 


Advice from a Caterpillar 


3i 


“ Why ? ” said the Caterpillar. 

6. Here was another puzzling question ; and, as 
Alice could not think of any good reason, and as 
the Caterpillar seemed to be in a very unpleasant 
state of mind, she turned away. 

“ Come back ! ” the Caterpillar called after her. 
“ I’ve something important to say ! ” 

This sounded promising, certainly : Alice turned 
and came back again. 

“ Keep your temper,” said the Caterpillar. 

“ Is that all ? ” said Alice, swallowing down her 
anger as well as she could. 

“ No,” said the Caterpillar. 

7. Alice thought she might as well wait, as she 
had nothing else to do, and perhaps after all it 
might tell her something worth hearing. For 
some minutes it puffed away without speaking, 
but at last it unfolded its arms, took the hookah 
out of its mouth again, and said, “ So you think 
you’re changed, do you ? ” 

8. “ I’m afraid I am, sir,” said Alice ; “ I can’t re- 
member things as I used — and I don’t keep the 
same size for ten minutes together ! ” 

“ Can’t remember what things? ” said the Cater- 
pillar. 

“ Well, I’ve tried to say ‘ How doth the little 
busy bee,’ but it all came different ! ” Alice re- 
plied in a very melancholy voice. 

“ Repeat ‘ You are old , Father William ,’ ” said the 
Caterpillar. 

Alice folded her hands, and began : 


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9. “ You are old , father William ,” the young man said ', 
u And your hair has become very white : 

And yet you incessantly stand on your head — 
you think , at your age , it is right ? ” 


10. “ In my youth,” father William replied to his son, 
“ / feared it might injure the brain ; 

But now that Fm perfectly sure I have none , 

WV/j, I do it again and again,” 


11. “ old,” said the youth, u as I mentioned 

before, 

And have grown most uncommonly fat ; 

Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door — 
Pray, what is the reason of that f” 


Advice from a Caterpillar 


33 



12. “ In my youth" said the sage , as he shook his gray 

locks , 

“ I kept all my limbs very supple 
By the use of this ointment— one shilling the box — 
Allow me to sell you a couple." 

13. “ You are old ," said the youth, “ and your jaws are 

too weak 

For anything tougher than suet ; 

Yet you finished the goose , with the bones and the 
beak : 

Pray , how did you manage to do it ? 

14. “ In my youth," said his father, “ I took to the law, 

And argued each case with my wife ; 

And the muscular strength which it gave to my 
jazv 

Has lasted the rest of my life." 


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15. “ You are old” said the youth ; “ one would hardly 

suppose 

That your eye was as steady as ever ; 

Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose — 
What made you so awfully clever ? ” 

16. “7 have answered three questions , and that is 

enough ,” 

Said his father ; “ don't give yourself airs ! 
Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff? 

Be off , or Til kick you down-stairs ! ” 

1 7. “ That is not said right,” said the Caterpillar. 
“ Not quite right, I’m afraid,” said Alice 
timidly ; “ some of the words have got altered.” 

“ It is wrong from beginning to end,” said the 
Caterpillar decidedly, and there was silence for 
some minutes, 


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35 



The Caterpillar was the first to speak. 

What size do you want to be? ” it asked. 

“ Oh, I’m not particular as to size,” Alice 
hastily replied ; “ only one doesn’t like changing 
so often, you know.” 

“ I don't know,” said the Caterpillar. 

1 8. Alice said nothing: she had never been so 
much contradicted in all her life before, and she 
felt that she was losing her temper. 

“ Are you content now ? ” said the Caterpillar. 

“ Well, I should like to be a little larger, sir, if 
you wouldn’t mind,” said Alice : “ three inches is 
such a wretched height to be.” 

19. “ It is a very good height indeed ! ” said the 
Caterpillar angrily, rearing itself upright as it 
spoke (it was exactly three inches high). 

“ But I’m not used to it ! ” pleaded poor Alice 


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in a piteous tone. And she thought to herself, 
“ I wish the creature wouldn’t be so easily 
offended ! ” 

“You’ll get used to it in time,” said the Cater- 
pillar ; and it put the hookah into its mouth and 
began smoking again. 

20. This time Alice waited patiently until it chose 
to speak again. In a minute or two the Cater- 
pillar took the hookah out of its mouth, and 
yawned once or twice, and shook itself. Then it 
got down off the mushroom, and crawled away 
into the grass, merely remarking as it went, “ One 
side will make you grow taller, and the. other 
side will make you grow shorter.” 

21. “One side of what? The other side of 
what ? ” thought Alice to herself. 

“Of the mushroom,” said the Caterpillar, just 
as if she had asked it aloud ; and in another mo- 
ment it was out of sight. 

22. Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the 
mushroom for a minute, trying to make out 
which were the two sides of it; and, as it was 
perfectly round, she found this a very difficult 
question. However, at last she stretched her 
arms round it as far as they would go, and broke 
off a bit of the edge with each hand. 

23. “ And now which is which ? ” she said to her- 
self, and nibbled a little of the right-hand bit to 
try the effect : the next moment she felt a violent 
blow underneath her chin ; it had struck her 
foot ! 

24. She was a good deal frightened by this very 


Advice from a Caterpillar 


37 


sudden cnange, but she felt that there was no 
time to be lost, as she was shrinking rapidly ; so 
she set to work at once to eat some of the other 
bit. Her chin was pressed so closely against her 
foot, that there was hardly room to open her 
mouth ; but she did it at last, and managed to 
swallow a morsel of the left-hand bit. 

25. She set to work very carefully, nibbling first 
at one and then at the other, and growing some- 
times taller and sometimes shorter, until she had 
succeeded in bringing herself down to her usual 
height. 


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Chapter V 
Pig and Pepper 

1. It was so long since she had been anything near 
the right size, that it felt quite strange at first, 
but she got used to it in a few minutes, and began 
talking to herself as usual. “ Come, there’s half 
my plan done now ! How puzzling all these 
changes are ! I’m never sure what I’m going to 
be, from one minute to another ! However, I’ve 
got back to my right size : the next thing is, to 
get into that beautiful garden — how is that to be 
done, I wonder?” As she said this, she came 
suddenly upon an open place, with a little house 
in it about four feet high. “ Whoever lives there,” 
thought Alice, “ it’ll never do to come upon them 
this size ; why, I should frighten them out of their 
wits ! ” So she began nibbling at the right-hand 
bit again, and did not venture to go near the 
house till she had brought herself down to nine 
inches high, and then she opened the door and 
went in. 

2. The door led right into a large kitchen, which 
was full of smoke from one end to the other: the 
Duchess was sitting on a three-legged stool in the 
middle, nursing a baby ; the cook was leaning 
over the fire, stirring a large cauldron which 
seemed to be full of soup. 

3. “ There’s certainly too much pepper in that 


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39 



soup !” Alice said to herself, as well as she could 
for sneezing. 

4. There was certainly too much of it in the air. 
Even the Duchess sneezed occasionally ; and as 
for the baby, it was sneezing and howling alter- 
nately without a moment’s pause. The only two 
creatures in the kitchen that did n*ot sneeze were 
the cook, and a large Cat which was sitting on the 
hearth and grinning from ear to ear. 

5. “ Please, would you tell me,” said Alice, a little 
timidly, for she was not quite sure whether it was 
good manners for her to speak first, “ why your 
cat grins like that ? ” 

“ It’s a Cheshire Cat,” said the Duchess, “and 
that’s why. Pig ! 

6. She said the last word with such sudden vio- 


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lence that Alice quite jumped ; but she saw in 
another moment that it was addressed to the 
baby, and not to her, so she took courage, and 
went on again : 

“ I didn’t know that Cheshire cats always 
grinned ; in fact, I didn’t know that cats could 
grin.” 

“ They all can,” said the Duchess ; “ and most 
of ’em do.” 

“ I don’t know of any that do,” Alice said very 
politely, feeling quite pleased to have got into a 
conversation. 

7. “ Oh ! don’t bother me” said the Duchess ; 
and with that she began nursing her child again, 
singing a sort of lullaby to it as she did so, and 
giving it a violent shake at the end of every 
line : 


“ Speak roughly to your little boy 
And beat him when he sneezes ; 

He only does it to annoy , 

Because he knows it t eases.” 

Chorus. 

. (In which the cook and the baby joined) 

“ Wow! wow! wow!” 

8. While the Duchess sang the second verse of 
the song, she kept tossing the baby violently up 
and down, and the poor little thing howled so 
that Alice could hardly hear the words: — 


Pig and Pepper 


4i 


“ I speak severely to my boy , 

I beat him when he sneezes ; 

For he can thoroughly enjoy 
The pepper when he pleases ! ' 

Chorus. 

“ Wow ! wow ! wow ! ” 

9. “ Here ! you may nurse it a bit, if you like ! ” 
said the Duchess to Alice, flinging the baby at her 
as she spoke. “ I must go and get ready to play 
croquet with the Queen and she hurried out of 
the room. The cook threw a frying-pan after 
her as she went, but it just missed her. 

10. Alice caught the baby with some difficulty, as 
it was a queer-shaped little creature, and held out 
its arms and legs in all directions, “just like a 
star-fish,” thought Alice. The poor little thing 
was snorting like a steam-engine when she caught 
it, and kept doubling itself up and straightening 
itself out again, so that altogether, for the first 
minute or two, it was as much as she could do to 
hold it. 

11. “ If I don’t take this child away with me,” 
thought Alice, “ they’re sure to kill it in a day or 
two ; wouldn’t it be murder to leave it behind?” 
She said the last words out loud, and the little 
thing grunted in reply (it had left off sneezing by 
this time). “ Don’t grunt,” said Alice ; “ that’s 
not at all a proper way of expressing yourself.” 

12. Alice was just beginning to think to herself, 
“ Now, what am I to do with this creature when 


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I get it home?” when it grunted again, so vio- 
lently, that she looked down into its face in some 
alarm. This time there could be no mistake 

about it ; it was neither 
more nor less than a 
pig, and she felt that it 
would be quite absurd 
for her to carry it any 
further. 

13. So she set the 
little creature down, 
and felt quite relieved 
to see it trot away 
quietly into the wood. 
“ If it had grown up,” 
she said to herself, “it 
would have been a 
dreadfully ugly child; 
but it makes rather a 
handsome pig, I think.” And she began thinking 
over other children she knew, who might do very 
well as pigs, and was just saying to herself, “ If 
one only knew the right way to change them 

” when she was a little startled by seeing the 

Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few 
yards off. 

14. The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. * It 
looked good-natured, she thought ; still it had 
very long claws and a great many teeth, so she 
felt it ought to be treated with respect. 

15. “ Cheshire Puss,” she began, rather timidly, as 
she did not at all know whether it would like the 



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43 


name ; however, it only grinned a little wider. 
“ Come, it’s pleased so far,” thought Alice, and 





she went on, “ Would you 
tell me, please, which way 
I ought to walk from 
here ? ” 

1 6. “ That depends a good 
deal on where you want to 
get to,” said the Cat. 

I don’t care much where 
said Alice. 

" Then it doesn’t matter 
which way you walk,” said 
the Cat. 

“ — So long as I get some- 
where” Alice added as an 
explanation. 

“ Oh, you’re sure to do that,” said the Cat, “ if 
you only walk long enough.” 

17. Alice felt that this could not be denied, so she 


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tried another question. “ What sort of people 
live about here ? ” 

“ In that direction,” the Cat said, waving its 
right paw round, “ lives a Hatter ; and in that 
direction,” waving the other paw, “ lives a March 
Hare. Visit either you like : they’re both mad.” 

1 8. “ But 1 don’t want to go among mad people,” 
Alice remarked. 

“ Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat : “ we’re 
all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.” 

“ How do you know I’m mad ?” said Alice. 

“ You must be,” said the Cat, “ or you wouldn’t 
have come here.” 

19. Alice didn’t think that proved it at all ; how- 
ever, she went on : “ and how do you know that 
you’re mad?” 

“To begin with,” said the Cat, “a dog’s not 
mad. You grant that?” 

“ I suppose so,” said Alice. 

20. “ Well then,” the cat went on, “ you see a dog 
growls when it’s angry, and wags its tail when 
it’s pleased. Now / growl when I’m pleased, and 
wag my tail when I’m angry. Therefore I’m 
mad.” 

“ / call it purring, not growling,” said Alice. 

21. “ Call it what you like,” said the Cat. “ Do 
you play croquet with the Queen to-day?” 

“ I should like it very much,” said Alice, “ but 
I haven’t been invited yet.” 

“ You’ll see me there,” said the Cat, and van- 
ished. 

22. Alice was not much surprised at this, she was 


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45 


getting so well used to queer things happening. 
While she was still looking at the place where it 
had been, it suddenly appeared again. 

23. “ By-the-by, what became of the baby ? ” said 
the Cat. “ I’d nearly forgotten to ask.” 

“ It turned into a pig,” Alice answered very 
quietly, just as if the Cat had come back in a 
natural way. 

“ 1 thought it would,”* said the Cat, and van- 
ished again. 

24. Alice waited a little, half expecting to see it 
again ; but it did not appear, and after a minute or 
two she walked on in the direction in which the 
March Hare was said to live. “ I’ve seen hatters 
before,” she said to herself; “the March Hare 
will be much the most interesting; and perhaps, as 
this is May it won’t be raving mad — at least, not 
so mad as it was in March.” As she said this she 
looked up, and there was the c!at again, sitting 
on a branch of a tree. 

25. “ Did you say pig, or fig ? ” said the Cat. 

“ I said pig,” replied Alice ; “ and I wish you 
wouldn’t keep appearing and vanishing so sud- 
denly: you make one quite giddy.” 

26. “ All right,” said the Cat ; and this time it 
vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of 
the tail and ending with the grin, which remained 
some time after the rest of it had gone. 

27. “ Well ! I’ve often seen a cat without a grin,” 
thought Alice ; “ but a grin without a cat ! It’s 
the most curious thing I ever saw in all my 
life!” 


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28. Just as she said this, she noticed that one of 
the trees had a door leading- right into it. “ That’s 
very curious ! ” she thought. “But everything’s 
curious to-day. I think I may as well go in at 
once.” And in she went. 

29. Once more she found herself in the long hall, 
and close to the little glass table. “ Now, I’ll 
manage better this time,” she said to herself, and 
began by taking the little golden key, and un- 
locking the door that led into the garden. Then 
she set to work nibbling at the mushroom (she 
had kept a piece of it in her pocket) till she was 
about a foot high : then she walked down the 
little passage ; and then — she found herself at last 
in the beautiful garden, among the bright flower- 
beds and the cool fountains. 


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Chapter VI 

The Queen’s Croquet Ground 

1. A large rose-tree stood near the entrance of 
the garden : the roses growing on it were white, 
but there were three gardeners at it, busily paint- 
ing them red. Alice thought this a very curious 
thing, and she went nearer to watch them, and 
just as she came up to them she heard one of 
them say, “ Look out 
now, Five ! Don’t 
go splashing paint 
over me like that ! ” 

2. “ I couldn’t help 
it,” said Five in a 
sulky tone; “Seven 
jogged my elbow.” 

3. Seven flung 
down his brush, and 
had just begun, 

“ Well, of all the un- 
just things” — when 
his eye chanced to 
fall upon Alice, as 
she stood watching 
them, and he checked himself suddenly. The 
others looked round also, and all of them bowed 
low. At this moment Five, who had been 
anxiously looking across the garden, called out, 



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“ The Queen ! The Queen ! ” and the three gar 
deners instantly threw themselves flat upon their 
faces. There was a sound of many footsteps, and 
Alice looked round, eager to see the Queen. 

4. First came ten soldiers carrying clubs ; these 
were all shaped like the three gardeners, oblong 
and flat, with their hands and feet at the corners : 
next the ten courtiers ; these were ornamented all 
over with diamonds, and walked two and two, as 
the soldiers did. After these came the royal 
children ; there were ten of them, and the little 
dears came jumping merrily along, hand in hand, 
in couples : they were all ornamented with hearts. 
Next came the guests, mostly Kings and Queens, 
and among them Alice recognized the White 
Rabbit. It was talking in a hurried, nervous man- 
ner, smiling at everything that was said, and went 
by without noticing her. Then followed the 
Knave of Hearts, carrying the King’s crown on a 
crimson velvet cushion ; and, last of all this 
grand procession, came the King and Queen 
of Hearts. 

5. When the procession came opposite to Alice, 
they all stopped and looked at her, and the Queen 
said severely, “ Who is this?” She said it to the 
Knave of Hearts, who only bowed and smiled 
in reply. 

6. “ Idiot ! ” said the Queen, tossing her head 
impatiently : and turning to Alice, she went on, 
“ What’s your name, child ? ” 

7. “ My name is Alice, so please your Majesty, 
said Alice very politely ; but, she added to her- 


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49 


self, “ Why, they’re only a pack of cards, after all. 
I needn’t be afraid of them ! ” 

8. “ And who are these ? ” said the Queen, point- 
ing- to the three gardeners who were lying round 
the rose-tree ; for you see, as they were lying on 
their faces, and the pattern on their backs was 
the same as the rest of the pack, she could not 
tell whether they were gardeners, or soldiers, or 
courtiers, or three of her own children. 

9. “How should I know!” said Alice, sur- 
prised at her own courage. “ It’s no business of 
mine" 

10. The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, 
after glaring at her for a moment like a wild 
beast, began screaming, “ Off with her head ! 
Off-” 

11. “Nonsense!” said Alice, very loudly and 
decidedly, and the Queen was silent. 

12. The king laid his hand upon her arm, and 
timidly said, “ Consider, my dear : she is only a 
child ! ” 

13. The Queen turned angrily away from him, 
and said to the Knave, “ Turn them over ! ” 

14. The Knave did so, very carefully, with one 
foot. 

15. “ That’s right ! ” shouted the Queen. “ Can 
you play croquet ? ” 

16. “ The others were silent, and looked at 
Alice, as the question was evidently meant for 
her. 

17. “ Yes ! ” shouted Alice. 

18. “Come on then! roared the Queen, and 


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Alice joined the procession, wondering very much 
what would happen next. 

19. Alice thought she had never seen such a 
curious croquet-ground in her life ; it was all 



ridges and furrows ; the croquet-balls were live 
hedgehogs, and the mallets live flamingoes, and 
the soldiers had to double themselves up and 
stand on their hands and feet, to make the arches. 

20. The players all played at once without 


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waiting for turns, quarrelling all the while, and 
fighting for the hedgehogs ; and in a very short 
time the Queen was in a furious passion, and 
went stamping about, and shouting, “ Off with his 
head ! ” or “ Off with her head ! ” about once in a 
minute. 

21. Alice began to feel very uneasy; she was 
looking about for some way of escape, and won- 
dering whether she could get away without 
being seen, when she noticed a curious appear- 
ance in the air : it puzzled her very much at first, 
but after watching it a minute or two she made 
it out to be a grin, and she said to herself, “ It’s 
the Cheshire Cat : now I shall have somebody to 
talk to ?” 

22. “ How are you getting on ?” said the Cat as 
soon as there was mouth enough for it to speak 
with. 

23. Alice waited till the eyes appeared, and then 
nodded. “ It’s no use speaking to it,” she thought, 
“ till its ears have come, or at least one of them.” 
In another minute the whole head appeared, and 
then Alice put down her flamingo, and began an 
account of the game, feeling very glad she had 
some one to listen to her. The Cat seemed to 
think that there was enough of it now in sight, 
and no more of it appeared. 

24. “How do you like the queen?” said the 
Cat in a low voice. 

25. “Not at all,” said Alice; “she’s so ex- 
tremely — ” Just then she noticed that the Queen 
was close behind her, listening ; so she went on 


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“ — likely to win, that it’s hardly worth while 
finishing the game.” 

26. The Queen smiled and passed on. 

27. “ Who are you talking to?” said the King, 
coming up to Alice, and looking at the Cat’s head 
with great curiosity. 

28. “ It’s a friend of mine — a Cheshire Cat,” said 
i\lice ; “allow me to introduce it.” 

29. “ I don’t like the look of it at all,” said the 
King; “ however, it may kiss my hand if it likes.” 

30. “ I’d rather not,” the Cat remarked. 

31. “ Don’t be impertinent,” said the King, “and 
don’t look at me like that! ” He got behind Alice 
as he spoke. 

32. “ A cat may look at a king,” said Alice. 
“I’ve read that in some book, but I don’t remem- 
ber where.” 

33. “ Well, it must be removed,” said the King 
very decidedly ; and he called to the Queen, who 
was passing at the moment, “ M)' dear ! I wish 
you would have this cat removed ! ” 

34. The Queen had only one way of settling all 
difficulties, great or small. “ Off with his head !” 
she said without even looking round. 

35. “ I’ll fetch the executioner myself,” said the 
King eagerly, and he hurried off. 

36. Alice thought she might as well go back 
and see how the game was going on, as she heard 
the Queen’s voice in the distance, screaming with 
passion. She had already heard her sentence 
three of the players to be executed for having 
missed their turns, and she did not like the look 


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of things at all, as the game was in such confusion 
that she never knew whether it was her turn or 
not. So she went off to have a little more con- 
versation with her friend, the Cheshire Cat. She 
was surprised to find quite a large crowd collected 
round it ; there was a dispute going on between 



the executioner, the King, and the Queen, who 
were all talking at once, while all the rest were 
quite silent, and looked very uncomfortable. 

37. The moment Alice appeared, she was ap- 
pealed to by all three to settle the question, and 
they repeated their arguments to her, though, as 



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they all spoke at once, she found it very hard to 
make out exactly what they said. 

38. The executioner’s argument was, that you 
couldn’t cut off a head unless there was a body to 
cut it off from ; that he had never had to do such 
a thing before, and he wasn’t going to begin at 
his time of life. 

39. The King’s argument was, that anything 
that had a head could be beheaded, and that you 
weren’t to talk nonsense. 

40. The Queen’s argument was, that if some- 
thing wasn’t done about it in less than no time, 
she’d have everybody executed, all round. (It 
was this last remark that had made the whole 
party look so grave and anxious.) 

41. Alice could think of nothing else to say but 
“ It belongs to the Duchess ; you’d better ask her 
about it.” 

42. “ She’s in prison,” the Queen said to the 
executioner ; “ fetch her here.” And the execu- 
tioner went off like an arrow. 

43. The Cat’s head began fading away the mo- 
ment he was gone, and, by the time he had come 
back with the Duchess, it had entirely disap- 
peared ; so the King and the executioner ran 
wildly up and down looking for it, while the rest 
of the party went back to the game. 


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Chapter VII 

The Mock Turtle’s Story 

1. “You can’t think how glad I am to see you 
again, you dear old thing ! ” said the Duchess, as 
she tucked her arm affectionately into Alice’s and 
they walked off together. 

2. Alice did not much like her keeping so close 
to her ; first, because the Duchess was very ugly, 
and secondly, because she was exactly the right 
height to rest her chin on Alice’s shoulder, and it 
was an uncomfortably sharp chin. However, she 
did not like to be rude, so she bore it as well as 
she could. 

3. “ The game’s going on rather better now,” 
she said by way of keeping up the conversation 
a little. 

4. ’* ’Tis so,” said the Duchess; “and the moral 
of that is — ‘ Oh, ’tis love, ’tis love, that makes the 
world go round ! ’ ” 

5. “ Somebody said,” Alice whispered, “ that 
it’s done by everybody minding their own busi- 
ness ! ” 

6. “ Ah, well ! It means much the same thing,” 
said the Duchess, digging her sharp little chin 
into Alice’s shoulder as she added, “ and the 
moral of that is — ‘ Take care of the sense, and the 
sounds will take care of themselves. 

7. “ How fond she is of finding morals in 
things,” Alice thought to herself, 


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8. “ I daresay you’re wondering why I don’t put 
my arm round your waist,” said the Duchess after 
a pause ; “ the reason is, that I’m doubtful about 

the temper of your 
flamingo. Shall I 
trjr the experiment ?” 

9. “ H e might 
bite,” Alice cautious- 
ly replied, not feeling 
at all anxious to have 
the experiment tried. 

10. “ Very true,” 
said the Duchess ; 
“ flamingoes and 
mustard both bite. 
And the moral of that 
is — ‘Birds of a feather 
flock together.’ ” 

11. “Only mus- 
tard isn’t a bird,” 
Alice remarked. 

12. “ Right, as usual,” said the Duchess ; “ what 
a clear way you have of putting things ! ” 

13. “ It’s a mineral, I think ” said Alice. 

14. “Of course it is,” said the Duchess, who 
seemed ready to agree to everything that Alice 
said ; “ there’s a large mustard-mine near here. 
And the moral of that is — ‘ The more there is of 
mine, the less there is of yours.’ ” 

15. “Oh, I know!” exclaimed Alice, who had 
not attended to this last remark, “ it’s a vegetable. 
It doesn’t look like one, but it is.” 



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57 


16. “ I quite agree with you,” said the Duchess ; 

“ and the moral of that is — ” 

1 7. But here, to Alice’s great surprise, the 
Duchess’ voice died away, even in the middle of ' 
her favorite word “ moral,” and the arm that was 
linked into hers began to tremble. Alice looked 
up, and there stood the Queen in front of them, 
with her arms folded, frowning like a thunder- 
storm. 

18. “A fine day, your Majesty! ” the Duchess 
began, in a low, weak voice. 

19. “ Now, I give you fair warning,” shouted 
the Queen, stamping on the ground as she spoke ; 

“ either you or your head must be off, and that in 
about half no time ! Take your choice ! ” 

20. The Duchess took her choice, and was gone 
in a moment. 

21. “Let’s go on with the game,” the Queen 
said to Alice ; and Alice was too much frightened 
to say a word, but slowly followed her back to 
the croquet-ground. 

22. The other guests had taken advantage of 
the Queen’s absence, and were resting in the 
shade ; however, the moment they saw her, they 
hurried back to the game, the Queen merely re- 
marking that a moment’s delay would cost them 
their lives. 

23. All the time they were playing the Queen 
never left off quarrelling with the other players, 
and shouting “ Off with his head ! ” or “ Off with 
her head ! ” Those whom she sentenced were 
taken into custody by the soldiers, who of course 


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58 

had to leave off being arches to do this, so that by 
the end of half an hour or so there were no arches 
left, and all the players except the King, the 
Queen, and Alice were in custody and under sen- 
tence of execution. 

24. Then the Queen left off, quite out of breath, 
and said to Alice, “ Have you seen the Mock 
Turtle yet ? ” 

*25. “No,” said Alice. “I don’t even know 
what a Mock Turtle is.” 

26. “ It’s the thing Mock Turtle Soup is made 
from,” said the Queen. 

27. “ I never saw one, or heard of one,” said 
Alice. 

28. “ Come on, then,” said the Queen, “ and he 
shall tell you his history.” 

29. As they walked off together, Alice heard 
the King say in a low voice, to the company gen- 
erally, “You are all pardoned.” “ Come, that's a 
good thing ! ” she said to herself, for she had felt 
quite unhappy at the number of executions the 
Queen had ordered. 

30. They very soon came upon a Gryphon, 
lying fast asleep in the sun. (If you don’t know 
what a Gryphon is, look at the picture.) “ Up, 
lazy thing ! ” said the Queen, “ and take this 
young lady to see the Mock Turtle, and to hear 
his history. I must go back and see after some 
executions I have ordered ; ” and she walked off, 
leaving Alice alone with the Gryphon. Alice did 
not quite like the look of the creature, but on the 
whole she thought it would be quite as safe to 


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stay with it as to go after that savage Queen ; so 
she waited. 

31. The Gryphon sat up and rubbed its eyes: 
then it watched the Queen till she was out of 
sight; then it chuckled. “What fun!” said the 
Gryphon, half to itself, half to Alice. 



32. “ What is the fun? ” said Alice. 

33. “ Why, she” said the Gryphon. “ It’s all 
her fancy, that : they never executes nobody, you 
know. Come on.” 

34. “ Everybody says ‘ come on ! ’ here,” 
thought Alice, as she went slowly after it ; “ I 
never was so ordered about before in all my life, 
never ! ” 

35. They had not gone far before they saw the 
Mock Turtle in the distance, sitting sad and 
lonely on a little ledge of rock, and, as they came 
nearer, Alice could hear him sighing as if his 


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heart would break. She pitied him deeply. 
“ What is his sorrow ? ” she asked the Gryphon, 
and the Gryphon answered, very nearly in the 
same words as before, “ It’s all his fancy, that : he 
hasn’t got no sorrow, you know. Come on! ” 

36. So they went up to the Mock Turtle, who 
looked at them with large eyes full of tears, but 
said nothing. 

37. “ This here young lady,” said the Gryphon, 
“ she wants for to know your history, she do.” 

38. “ I’ll tell it her,” said the Mock Turtle in 
a deep, hollow tone ; “ sit down both of you, and 
don’t speak a word till I’ve finished.” 

39. So they sat down, and nobody spoke for 
some minutes. Alice thought to herself, “ I don’t 
see how he can ever finish, if he doesn’t begin.” 
But she waited patiently. 

40. “ Once,” said the Mock Turtle at last, with 
a deep sigh, “ I was a real Turtle.” 

41. These words were followed by a very long 
silence, broken only by an occasional exclamation 
of “ Hjckrrh ! ” from the Gryphon, and the con- 
stant heavy sobbing of the Mock Turtle. Alice 
was very nearly getting up and saying, “ Thank 
you, sir, for your interesting story but she could 
not help thinking there must be more to come, so 
she sat still and said nothing. 

42. “ When we were little,” the Mock Turtle 
went on at last, more calmly, though still sob- 
bing a little now and then, “ we went to school in 
the sea. The master was an old Turtle — we used 
to call him Tortoise — ” 



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43. “ Why did you call him Tortoise, if he 
wasn’t one? ” Alice asked. 

44. “ We called him Tortoise because he taught 
us,” said the Mock Turtle angrily; “really, you 
are very dull ! ” 


45. “You ought to be ashamed of yourself for 
asking such a simple question,” added the Gry- 
phon ; and then they both sat silent and looked at 
poor Alice, who felt ready to sink into the earth. 
At last the Gryphon said to the Mock Turtle, 



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“ Drive on, old fellow ! Don’t be all day about 
it ! ” and he went on in these words : 

4 6. “ Yes, we went to school in the sea, though 
you mayn’t believe it — ” 

47. “ I never said I didn’t!” interrupted Alice. 

48. “You did,” said the Mock Turtle. 

49. “ Hold your tongue! ” added the Gryphon, 
before Alice could speak again. The Mock 
Turtle went on. 

50. “We had the best of educations — in fact, 
we went to school every day — ” 

51. I've been to a day-school too,” said Alice; 
“ you needn’t be so proud as all that.” 

52. “With extras?” asked the Mock Turtle a 
little anxiously. 

53. “ Yes,” said Alice; “ we learned French and 
music.” 

54. “ And washing ? ” said the Mock Turtle. 

55. “ Certainly not! ” said Alice indignantly. 

56. “ Ah ! Then your’s wasn’t a really good 
school,” said the Mock Turtle in a tone of great 
relief. “Now at ours they had at the end of the 
bill, ‘ French, music, and zvashing — extra.’ ” 

57. “ You couldn’t have wanted it much,” said 
Alice, “living at the bottom of the sea.” 

58. “ I couldn’t afford to learn it,” said the 
Mock Turtle with a sigh. “ I only took the regu- 
lar course.” 

59. “ What was that,” inquired Alice. 

60. “ Reeling and Writhing, of course, to be- 
gin with,” the Mock Turtle replied : “ and then 


The Mock Turtle’s Story 63 

the different branches of Arithmetic — Ambition, 
Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.” 

61. “ I never heard of 1 Uglification,’ ” Alice 
ventured to say. “ What is it ? ” 

62. The Gryphon lifted up both its paws in sur- 
prise. “ Never heard of Uglifying ! it exclaimed. 
“ You know what to beautify is, I suppose?” 

63. “ Yes,” said Alice, doubtfully : “it means — 
to — make — anything — prettier.” 

64. “Well, then,” the Gryphon went on, “if 
you don’t know what to uglify is, you are a sim- 
pleton.” 

65. Alice did not feel encouraged to ask any 
more questions about it, so she turned to the 
Mock Turtle and said, “What else had you to 
learn?” 

66. “Well, there was Mystery,” the Mock Tur- 
tle replied, counting off the subjects on his flap- 
pers — “ Mystery, ancient and modern, with Sea- 
ography : then Drawling — the Drawling-master 
was an old conger-eel that used to come once a 
week ; he taught us Drawling, Stretching, and 
Fainting in Coils.” 

67. “ What was that like ?” said Alice. 

68. “ Well, I can’t show it you, myself,” the 
Mock Turtle said : “ I’m too stiff. And the Gry- 
phon never learnt it.” 

69. “ Hadn’t time,” said the Gryphon ; “ I went 
to the Classical master, though. He was an old 
crab, he was.” 

70. “ I never went to him,” the Mock Turtle 


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said with a sigh ; “ he taught Laughingand Grief, 
they used to say.” 

7 1. “ So he did, so he did,” said the Gryphon, 
sighing in his turn, and both creatures hid their 
faces in their paws. 

72. “ And how many hours a day did you do 
lessons ? ” said Alice, in a hurry to change the 
subject. 

73. “Ten hours the first day,” said the Mock 
Turtle ; “ nine the next, and so on.” 

74. “ What a curious plan ! ” exclaimed Alice. 

75. “That’s the reason they’re called lessons,” 
the Gryphon remarked ; “ because they lessen 
from day to day.” 

76. This was quite a new idea to Alice, and she 
thought it over a little before she made her next 
remark. “ Then the eleventh day must have been 
a holiday ? ” 

77. “ Of course it was,” said the Mock Turtle. 

78. “ And how did you manage on the twelfth ? ” 
Alice went on eagerly. 

79. “ That’s enough about lessons,” the Gry- 
phon interrupted in a very decided tone ; “ tell 
her something about the games now.” 


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65 


Chapter VIII 
The Lobster-Quadrille 

1. The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and drew 
the back of one flapper across his eyes. He 
looked at Alice and tried to speak, but for a 
minute or two sobs choked his voice. “ Same as 
if he had a bone in his throat,” said the Gryphon, 
and it set to work shaking and punching him in 
the back. At last the Mock Turtle recovered his 
voice, and, with tears running down his cheeks, 
he went on again ; 

2. “ You may not have lived much under the 
sea — ” (“ I haven’t,” said Alice) — “ and perhaps 
you were never even introduced to a lobster — ” 
(Alice began to say “ I once tasted ” — but checked 
herself hastily, and said, “ No, never ”) — “ so you 
can have no idea what a delightful thing a Lob- 
ster-Quadrille is ! ” 

3. “ No, indeed,” said Alice. “ What sort of a 
dance is it ? ” 

4. “ Why,” said the Gryphon, “ you first form 
into a line along the seashore — ” 

5. “Two lines!” cried the Mock Turtle. 
“ Seals, turtles, salmon, and so on ; then, when 
you’ve cleared all the jelly-fish out of the way — ” 

6. “ That generally takes some time,” inter- 
rupted the Gryphon, 


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7. “ — you advance twice — ” 

8. “ Each with a lobster as a partner ! ” cried 
the Gryphon. 

9. “Of course,’’ the Mock Turtle said; “ad- 
vance twice, set to partners — ” 

10. “ — change lobsters, and retire in same 
order,” continued the Gryphon. 

11. “Then, you know,” the Mock Turtle went 
on, “you throw the — ” 

12. “ The lobsters ! ” shouted the Gryphon, with 
a bound into the air. 

13. “ — as far out to sea as you can — ” 

14. “ Swim after them ! ” screamed the Gry- 
phon. 

15. “ Turn a somersault in the sea!” cried the 
Mock Turtle, capering wildly about. 

16. “ Change lobsters again ! ” yelled the Gry- 
phon at the top of its voice. 

17. “ Back to land again, and — that’s all the first 
figure,” said the Mock Turtle, suddenly dropping 
his voice; and the two creatures, who had been 
jumping about like mad things all this time, sat 
down again very sadly and quietly, and looked at 
Alice. 

18. “ It must be a very pretty dance,” said Alice 
timidly. 

19. “ Would you like to see a little of it? ” said 
the Mock Turtle. 

20. “Very much indeed,” said Alice. 

21. “ Come, let’s try the first figure ! ” said the 
Mock Turtle to the Gryphon. “We can do it 
without lobsters, ydu know. Which shall sing ? ” 


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22. “ Oh, you sing,” said the Gryphon. “ I’ve 
forgotten the words.” 

23. So they began solemnly dancing round and 
round Alice, every now and then treading on her 
toes when they passed too close, and waving their 



fore-paws to mark the time, while the Mock Tur- 
tle sang this, very slowly and sadly : 

24. “ Will you walk a little faster?" said a whit- 
ing to a snail , 

“ There' s a porpoise close behind us, and he' s treading 
on my tail. 

See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all ad- 
vance ! 


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They are waiting on the shingle— will you come and 
join the dance ? 

Will you, wont you, will you, won't you, will you join 
the dance ? 

Will you, wont you , will you, won't you, wont you 
join the dance ? 

25. “ You can really have no notion how delightful 
it will be 

When they take us up and throw us, with the lobsters, 
out to sea! " 

But the snail replied, “ Too far, too far! " and gave a 
look askance — 

Said he thanked the whiting kindly, but he would not 
join the dance . 

Would not , could not, would not, could not, would not 
join the dance. 

Would not, could not, would not, could not, could not 
join the dance. 

26. “ What matters it how far we go ? " his scaly 
friend replied, 

“ There is another shore, you know, upon the other 
side, 

The further off from England the nearer is to 
France ; 

Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join 
the dance. 

Will you, won t you, will you, won't you, will you join 
the dance ? " 

Will you, wont you, will you, won't you , won't you 
join the dance ? " 


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27. “ Thank you, it’s a very interesting dance to 

watch,” said Alice, feeling very glad that it was 
over at last ; “ and I do so like that curious 
song ! ” “ If I’d been the whiting, I’d have said 

to the porpoise, ‘ Keep back, please ; we don’t 
want you with us ! ’” 

28. “ They were obliged to have him with 
them,” the Mock Turtle said: “no wise fish 
would go anywhere without a porpoise.” 

29. “Wouldn’t it really?” said Alice in a tone 
of great surprise. 

30. “Of course not,” said the Mock Turtle: 
“ why, if a fish came to me , and told me he was 
going a journey, I should say, ‘ With what por- 
poise?’ ” 

31. “ Don’t you mean ‘ purpose ’ ? ” said Alice. 

32. “ I mean what I say,” the Mock Turtle re- 
plied in an offended tone. And the Gryphon 
added, “Come, let’s hear some of your advent- 
ures.” 

33. “ I could tell you my adventures — begin- 
ning from this morning,” said Alice a little 
timidly : “ but it’s no use going back to )^esterday, 
because I was a different person then.” 

34. “ Explain all that,” said the Mock Turtle. 

35. “No, no! the adventures first,” said the 
Gryphon in an impatient tone ; “ explanations 
take such a dreadful time.” 

36. So Alice began telling them her adventures 
from the time when she first saw the White 
Rabbit; she was a little nervous about it just at 
first, the two creatures got so close to her, one on 


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each side, and opened their eyes and mouths so 
very wide, but she gained courage as she went 
on. Her listeners were perfectly quiet till she 
got to the part about her repeating “ You are old , 
Father William ,” to the Caterpillar, and the words 
all coming different, and then the Mock Turtle 


drew a long breath,' 
and said, “ That’s 
very curious.” 



37. “ It’s all about 
as curious as it can 
be,” said the Gry- 
phon. 


38. “ It all came 
different ! ” the Mock 
Turtle repeated 
thoughtfully. “ I 
should like to hear 
her try and repeat 
something now. Tell 
her to begin.” He 
looked at the Gry- 
phon as if he thought 
it had some kind of 
authority over Alice. 


39. “Stand up and repeat ‘ ’Tis the voice of the 
sluggard ,’ ” said the Gryphon. 

40. “ How the creatures order one about, and 
make one repeat lessons ! ” thought Alice. “ I 
might just as well be at school at once.” How- 
ever, she got up and began to repeat it, but her 
head was so full of the Lobster-Quadrille, that she 


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hardly knew what she was saying-, and the words 
came very queer indeed : 

41. “ ’ Tis the voice of the lobster ; I heard him de- 
clare , 

‘ You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair.' 
As a duck with his eyelids, so he with his nose 
Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes." 

42. “ That’s different from what / used to say 
when I was a child,” said the Gryphon. 

43. “ Well, I never heard it before,” said the 
Mock Turtle; “but it sounds uncommon non- 
sense.” 

44. “ Shall we try another figure of the Lobster- 
Quadrille?” the Gryphon went on. “ Or would 
you like the Mock Turtle to sing you a song? ” 

45. “ Oh, a song, please, if the Mock Turtle 
would be so kind,” Alice replied, so eagerly that 
the Gryphon said, in a rather offended tone, 
“ Hm ! No accounting for tastes ! Sing her 
‘ Turtle Soup,' will you, old fellow ? ” 

46. The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and began, 
in a voice sometimes choked with sobs, to sing this : 

47. “ Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, 

Waiting in a hot tureen ? 

Who for such dainties would not stoop ? 

Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup ! 

Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup ! 

Beau — ootiful Soo — oop ! 

Beau — ootiful Soo — oop ! 

Soo — oop of the e — e — evening, 

Beautiful, beautiful Soup ! 


72 


Alice in Wonderland 


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